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Date:      Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how do you turn on / install drivers? (Xircom PC-Card Ethernet)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910171723280.8080-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910180450210.79335-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, jesse reynolds wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >Does FreeBSD have dynamicly loadable kernel modules like Linux?
> 
> Yes. We call them KLDs. Kernel loadable devices.
> 
> >How do I check to see if a certain driver is installed for a certain 
> >piece of hardware?
> 
> 'man kld' tells all the things I would type.
> 
> >I know that the xircom driver is now part of 3.3 Release, but it's 
> >not recognising either a CE2 or a CEM33. Might it be "disabled". Do I 
> >have to recompile the kernel or can I just adjust a kernel conf file?
> 
> The kernel conf file in FreeBSD is equivalent to the .config file in
> Redhat. The build of a kernel reads in to build a monolithic kernel.

The kernel.conf file should be either in / or /boot afaik,
you want to remove the "di <driver_name>" lines for the drivers you 
want to become re-enabled.

-Alfred



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